Olafur Eliasson
18th June - 26th February 2012
Niveau 6

In connection with the opening of Olafur Eliasson’s work Your rainbow panorama, which will reaffirm the City of Aarhus’ position as a centre of international contemporary art, ARoS will present a number of Eliasson’s installations. The presentation will take place at the exhibition gallery at level 6 and includes works such as Beauty (1993), The inverted panorama house (2004), and Your atmospheric colour atlas (2009); in different ways, all of these art works address how colours appear to the human eye.

The spectator takes centre stage in the encounter with Eliasson’s art. Oursensory experience of the world and the cultural templates that shape how we perceive the world are constantly engaged and challenged.

Eliasson’s practice is characterised by a ceaseless exploration of human interaction with the surrounding world. Operating in a place where many realms intersect – science and aesthetics, rational deliberation and sensory experience, culture and nature – Eliasson’s art calls our attention to the ways in which we orient ourselves, both physically and mentally.

The inverted panorama house

In the installation The inverted panorama house we can experience an ever-changing array of shadows and colour from the outside and from the inside as they are reflected onto a screen surrounding us; a screen showing the effects created by five rotating discs of coloured glass and a powerful projector.

Beauty

Eliasson’s works often incorporate natural elements such as light, air, and water, and the work Beauty(1993) recreates all the colours of the rainbow by juxtaposing light with misty sprays of water.

Your atmospheric colour atlas

Your atmospheric colour atlas (2009) consists of a mist lit from above in the colours red, green, and blue. As you move around the installation and enter the borders between the different colour zones, the hues mix to form magenta, cyan, and yellow, and where all the colours meet we find an area of pure, white light. The colourful mist blurs our vision, challenging our ability to orient ourselves and forcing us to navigate the space using our other senses, perhaps by creating our own colour atlas.

Olafur Eliasson’s works are presented at the exhibition gallery on level 6 in June 2011.

Olafur Eliasson: The inverted panorama house, 2004, 315 x 720 cm.
Stainless steel, projection foil, glass, mirror coating, colour-effect filter glass, spotlight, tripod, motors, wood. Installation view at Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2010. Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson. Courtesy the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, and Claus Andersen, Copenhagen.
© 2004 Olafur Eliasson


Olafur Eliasson: Beauty, 1993, dimension variable. Spotlight, water, nozzles, wood, hose, pump.Installation view at ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, DK, 2004. Photo: Poul Pedersen. Courtesy the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, and Claus Andersen, Copenhagen. © 1993 Olafur Eliasson	Olafur Eliasson: Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009, dimension variable. Fluorescent lights, aluminium, steel, ballasts, haze machine. Installation view 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, 2009-10. Photo Studio Olafur Eliasson. Courtesy the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, and Claus Andersen, Copenhagen. © 2009 Olafur Eliasson